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THE HOUR OF 8IUDOW& IL C Bunner. fpou that quiet day that lies Sv bere furmt branches riwn tlie t-le, Tbaipiiit of the eve luw laid A deer and dreamier ibado; And winds that through the tree-tops blow Wake not the silent gloom below. Only tli sound of far-off streams. Faint a oar dreamt of childhood' dreamt, Wandering in tangle! pathways eront, Like, woodland tnianU tlfaved and lut, Tbelr faint, complaining echoes roam, Threading the forest toward their home. 0 brooks, I too hart gone antray, And left sir comralm on the way Ouide ine through aisle where toft you moan, To torn tail pot you know alone, Where only Itiavea an t nrthnK stir, And I may dream, and dream of Her. A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr a. Myra Clarke Oalnea, Her VI tallly and Mental Brilllanry. New 0"leana Cor. Intr Ocean.) In this pleasant borne we hal the pleasure of inect.ng one of tho most won lerful women of the ninteonth cen tury Myr Clarke (la nes, the widow of the late (ten. Okines. Mrs. Gained has for the paft fifty years been trying, through the courts to prove her right to property which a 'tiially belongs to her, and about which the supreme court of the United States has decided in her favor, but now comes some technical flaw about bonds. The little woman bas Burn 7G Years, but bas tho appear ance of being only M), with hor fair complexion, bright black e;e flint never look through g'asses 1 1 decipher the finest print or to nsc ber pen, which she is doing, and the result will be her autobiography, which cannot he!p but bo an interesting work. With all hor trouble and opposition, she dees not ehow any wmlietivenoss c r bitterness, is amiable, generous, and a true friend to tho poor. Whoa relating to us the experiences of ber trials, she would vi brato alxmt the room, gesticulating in an amusing manner. She avow that she ran outtalk, outlaugh, outwalk nnv woman under the sun, and boasts of having monopolized the conversation when Mme. Lee,twasor the company, mu -h to the chagrin of that renowned foroigner. W lien the question pf the illegitimacy 01 .Mrs. iiaiiica binn was introduced in court, she deadeil her own case in the presence of more than a thousand peo ple, which jdea brought every member of tho jury to her side, Sho says ' Uod nover repented having made woman, but He saw that man wuso docidod fail ure, and was sorry that He bad created bim." She is always a woman's cham pion, believing in her rights, wh ch she says must come, ami the right of fran chise, on which Biibjoct t-ho has talked in publio to thousands of attentive listeners. "If, said slio, "1 bad been a man I should have adopted tho modical profession, because for it I inherit both taste and talent." She restored ber daughter to perfect health after the physicians had pronounced her beyond cure. Mrs. Oainos' father, Daniel Clarke, was a native of New Orleans, and in that city be is buried. In her early maidenhood she became the wile of William Wallace Whitney, of New York, but in a few years was widowed. She says: "(ion. Onirics was greater than Clay, Calhoun or Webster, and his last words to me wero, 'lour cause is i'ust and you must succeed.'" Although er lather was born in Louisiana and her husband in Virginia, she has never known any north or south, but hasidol ued her whole country. Her first be nevolent work will bo to build a w idows' home, tho next an orphau asy lum, if the greedy lawyers do not "gobble up" all she socuros. Tho charges in the t aso thus fur, for foes, stenographers, writs and counsel foes, have already been over $.100,(100. Tho printed record will cost $12, 0(H). It is hoped that tho mono; o I woman will soon secure her rights, as she has been living on borrowed capital since 1870, part of tho time supporting thirteen per sons. . Knnday In K.I I'ano. Cor. Inter Ocean. Wo spent Sunday at 1.1 Paso, and in tho afternoon weut across the river to seo the old church, the onlv object of interest in the town. Tho doors were locked, mid wo inquired at a neighboring I store where wo could get tho key. "Of tho priest," was the reply. "Aud where is tho priest?" "At tho co-'k-flght. Aud there wo found him; in a rough amphitheatre, crowded with men who looked like banditti, nearly every one of them with gamecock under onoarmand in tho other hand a few dollars of Mexican money, engaged in the na tional amusement and betting upon tke comhotivoncss of his favorite rooster. It is tho regular practice on Sunday in Mexico for tho entire congregation, priest and all, to leave tho church for the cock- pit after high mass aud upend the roniuiudor of tho day in that re fined amusement. The priest at Paso del Not to owns a number of fine ganio birds, and was too much interested in the match to accompany us to tho place of worship where he officiates. A llnnsorlat'a Keadjr Hit. Bill Nye. This is a story of Ooorge 1. Prentice which I never saw in print and which is a better illustration of his rendv wit than anything else he said, I think. Tho old Journal oftico used to be tho stamping ground of many southern men, more or lest known, who liked to boor the veteran journalist toll a story or warm up a presumptuous young man for lunch. Among those who fre qnonto 1 The Journal office w as Will S. Hays, tho song writer. Coming into Mr. Preutice's office ono day in that free aud easy way of bis, ho sat down in one chair, with his feet on another, and jamming his hat onthebtck of bis bead, said, without consulting Mr. Prontice'i leisure: "Seen my last aong, George? Mr. Prentice ceased writing, sighed ' heavily and looking up sadly and re proachfully at the young man, said: "I Lope so, Lilly." Henry Ward Becchor : There is an undying multitudo of all who in ages gone by Lave added to knowledge, to virtue and to heroic deeds, above our beads in tho uir. A LOST AUT FOUND. f'nr. Anvlfnn AUi.) Hnt-H'an'.J I had tlie pood for'.une to meet a gen tleman who has mada the grand. st aud most important discoveiy of any age. On the uorthdtouud train to Cin cinnati was Mr. Charles Williams, who, when a young man before the war, left Norr.stown, l'a., after sorving his time in a railroad machine shop, to take chtrgo of a locomotive o:i one of our south ern roads. At the c one of the war he weut to South America to taktj chorge of some m ning engineering on the Andes. When I met him be was on his war back to his od home after an absence of thirty years, r hortly before reaching Cincinnati, when the train was leaving a station, the engine ran oil the sw.toh. The ra n bad softened tho earth, sj that the driving-whoels sank in the mud, and every effort to block up got the engine deeper. After au hour s liar J work tlie engineer con cluded to wait for another engine to help him on again. Just then N illiums got out to see the cause of delay. Seeiug the engine off the track Williams went up telling everybody to step out of the way, put out his hand and lift o 1 the engine as easily as if it had b-en a feather. In an ins ant tho driving wheels a nrted of! like lightii nz, covering Williams with oil thrown out from the rapidly revolv ing ro Is and oil curs. Everybody was frightened, as well as Williams, who dropped the locomotive quickly. The suddi n dropping of the engine on the blocking the engineer had put nnder it niaJe them Hy in every direc tion and bent ono of the rods - but fortunately no one w as hurt. Tho en gineer, when trying to get the engine on, hod neglected to close the valve, so when tho engine was lifted off tho ground, tho steam not being turned off, the wheels rovolvei like lightning. Williams got the astonished engineer to shut o.I the steam, and then f putting bis hand on tho spokes of the driving wheels be lifted tho engine on tho track as easily as if it bud leen a pound weight. During the Imlunce of the trip Williams was regarded by tho engineer and train hands an a man from hades instead of South America. To-night he bas been waited on by a committee of tho lcadimr men of Cin cinnati ei'Mojor Willam Means, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Shillito, Mr. Sinton and others to learn something of his remarkable power. He told them he had, when in the ndos, made a dis covery that enabled him to overcome the laws of giav.tation, and he or any one adopting tl.o sumo means could movo or lift uny weight, no matter how great, tho committee wero astonished at tho e idonue bo furnished if the fact. That he bas mode this discovery thore is no doubt, and its effect on engineer ing and science is beyond all calcula tion, and makes every thing possible. Williams lea es in the morning for Washington, thence home. Ha was literally besieged last night by persons wanting bim to lift them out of their troubles. Mr. Sinton said ho would bo ono in ten that would give Williams $j,0J0, 000 for his discovery. Wheu wo read tho above special to Tho Hot Blast, detailing the wonderful powers of Mr. Williams, we were sur prised, and doubted its accuracy, hut it seems Williams has discovered a lost art, and ono that tho Egyptians once possessed. We litid in history this fact: " The pyramids required the labor of thousands of mou for many years. It is supposed that they wore the sepul chers of tho kinirs. They are in several groups, some distance from each other, on the banks of tho Nile. There, aro about forty of them, inany.being small and in a ruined condition. The great pvramid of Oizoh orJeeeh is 450 feet high, and covers an area of thirteen acres. Some of the huge stones weigh l.tiOO tons each, and w ere dragged hun dreds of miles from tho quarry. It is estimated that it would take 2,000 men three years to bring one of these stones to tho pyramid; and it must havo re quired much mechanical knowledge and great power to lift such enormous tones to their places in the pyramid." ,1 ust think of it ! One of these atom s weighed an much as our cotton factory building, and Jet the Egyptians could aud did bundle them with ease. An Observing Elephant. il'niciigo Herald. A couple of young elephants which were recently provided with a homo at tho St. Petersburg zoological gardens were fed with cakes aud other good things to such au extent by visitors to the gardens that their health greatly Buffered and it became necessary to in terfere. Tho public was requested to be less generous in its offerings, and tho request being not generally at tended to, a notice to tho same effect was paiuted on a metal plate fastened above the entrance of their house. This failing to attain tho object in view, and visitors continuing to find the ele phants with pastry, an official was stationed at tho entrance to call atten tion to the notice. The animals observ ing that whenever the latter raised his band to point to the sign, buns and cakes about to be given were withheld, drew their own conclusions and acted in their own interests. When their keeper looked in upon them one morn ing he found the sign on the ground in such a damaged condition that anew plate had to bo procured and placed out of the animals' reach. Aaalatlng at ore. Arkausnw Traveler. Soino poople aro very stupid. There's Gragle, for instance, Oood fellow, but vofully dull. In conversation with a iriend, bo remarked : "I regard the use of beer as tho true temperance prin ciple. W hen I work all day aud am exhausted nothing helps me like a gloss of beer. It assists nature, you under stand " "It makes a regular fool of me," the friend replied. "That's what I say; it assists nature." And even after the friend scowled at bim (Sragle didn't realize thut he bad said anything inappropriate. Wilkins: Youth sucks the sugar coating and old age chews tho bitter 111 of life. CROWS AT WASHINGTON. The Part Tlirjr riay In Preserving the Health of the Inhabitant. C C ne-'inari Tl ne-.S-ir.) One of the professors at the Smith sonian has evolved some curious theo ries about croAS and the effect they have on the health of Washington. Ar lington and the dense woods of the irginia hdis thereabout are the "roosts" of countless flocks of crows. This professor estimates thorn at some thing like a million. These enrious birds, wh.ch ho has studied a good deal, are of great value in ke p ng Washing ton as healthful a city as it is. They go on the river flat in the even ing juBt before roosting time and clean away much of the refuse whi h wo;: I I breed miasma. They are down lk"re nearly every ovening digging away on the Hats like a gang of workmen -thousands of them at a time. "Hundreds of thousands, I presume almost a mill on of theso birds, ho s.iid, "toost here every ni,'ht. In th-i even ing it looks as it a pall had been thrown over the cemetery or niht had settled on the trel tops. Every tree - and you know the trees at Arlington are large and close together is o covered that yo l can't see the limbs. They look like pyramids o. crows, and the gronnd is covered, too. "They are very curious birds," he continued. "Larly in the evening, be fore settling down to roost, thousands of them will fuss and fly about the cemetery, now settling upon the trees, then llyinar np and soaring about, their wings flashing like polished armor in the setting sun. Others w ulk solemnly among the graves, in search of food, or sit silently upon the tombstones. Their numbers, increase rapinly as the even ing advances. They seem to divide off into companies, ns roosting time ap proaches, and drop off in tlocks of two or threa hundred, dropping suddenly head first in among the trees. "Thoir feeding grounds stretch out in a direct line to the bay, toward An napolis, and they feed" all along the route. Tho 'feed' commences in the open fields in Maryland just outside of the district, and an immense number of crows ore scattered out during the day over a belt of country from Annapolis to Washington. The greater number, I think, however, go clear to tho bay and range along its shores, for miles and miles, near low water mark, pick ing such food as they can Liul. They seem to have the power to travel a great distance in a very short timo, but they are frequently on very short rations. I think, howttver, that the distance of their feeding ground from tho roost is regulated by their strength and age, the very old and feeble feeding in the fields near by, ond the others further away according to their ability to travel. "The shore of the bay is, doubtless, their chief resort for fowl, und they have almost exterminated ono of our greatest tablo luxuries, tho terrapin, wbieh formerly abounded in the bay and lower Potomac, by, in certain sea sons, destroying thoir eggs. The ter rapin, in the breeding season, lay their eggs along the shore, burying them in the Band, pressing tho sand over them with their breasts. In this way the cross mark on thoir breast loaves un im pression in the sand which enables the crows to find tho eggs, and they cat them with ull the relish of an epicurean taste. Tho crows rise early, bei'ore the wind or tido has bad a chunce to oblit erate tho mark, and wherever they seo the cross on the sand they dig for tho eggs. In this way they have almost done away with tl.e breed of terrap ins." The Oynter to the Strawberry. Pittsburg Chronicle A dissipated oyster that had just com pleted a winter's round of orgies at church fairs ond Sunday school sup pers, met a young and unsophisticated strawberry on its first trip from home. "I've an eye on you," said the oyster, leering at the strawberry in a way that made it blush. "Come up to 'tend the spring festivals, I suppose?" "I thought of so doing, sir," modestly replied the strawberry. "(ioing to tako in Chautanqna Lake, Ocean drove, aud so on, mebbe?" "Yes, sir." "You're the short-cake feller that goes around with his face tied up in sugar and cream, ain't von?" "Peally, sir, I have seen but little of the world as yi t, but " "That's all right. Now just yon take tho advice of on old rouudcr. I've been through this festival racket. It doesn't pay. It gets people down on you and ruins your reputation. Short-cakes are frauds. You keep away from them. lon't go near cream. It's tho worst thing you can get mixed up with in warm weather. Just you wait until vou seo a feller with a big diamond on his shirt and a tombstono on bis little ringer shaking up f.ome sherry and sugar in a glass. Keep your vest on until you see him put on top of the sherry a piece of pineapple, a piece of lemon, a chip of orange, and a sprig of mint; and then you get right in among them and pass the summer in good society. You hear me twitter." Igaoranee In Hlch Llf-. ITexnt Sifting. "You have got a verv picturesque pa per," remarked an elegantly dressed young gentleman, looking over the shoulder of a man who was reading a copy of Texas Sittings. It is an actual fact, that tho young man, although residing on Eifth avenue. New York city, was under the impres sion that a picturesque aper meant one that was full of pictures. This is almost as good as the story of the clergyman, who imagined that gar bage meant pretty much tho same as garb, and who consequently rebuked the frivolity of the ladies w hose dress or "garbao," as he put it, waj too ex tra vagaut. Itanger in lrn. Cincinnati Conuwrvia! liniette. It is rightly observed that the great danger in using narcetio drugs lies in the fact that the doso taken to-night that will not give you sleep, may to morrow night put yon into a sleep from which you will never wake. As an old physician remarks, tho real strength of a drug often depends as much npon the condition it finds you in as npon its own potency. Women Men Captalna. (Harper's Weekly. Mrs. Mary A. Miller is not the first woman who has served eucccssfully as mistress of a ship. Mrs. Capt. Patten, of Bath, Me., who w hile her husband was lying ill in bis berth, navigutod his ship around Cape Horn and np to San Irancisco, although bis t.mid firtt o;Iicer wanted to stop at Valparaiso for assistance: of Mrs. Capt. Abbie Clif ford, of the brig Abbie "Cliflord, who, after her husband had been washed overboard, brought the vessel safe into New York harbor from below the equator; of Mrs. Capt, Keed. of the Oakland, of lirunswick, Me., who was a practical navigator of celebrity, and of Miss Jenet Thorns, who often used to navigate ber father's ship, who is now teaching a school of navigation in this city and who was in part the author of "Thorns' Navigator," a book of au thority among mariners. These cases are all of recent date. To them The Leavenworth (Kan.) Times adds the case of Mrs. Capt. John Oli er Norton, of Edgartown, M ass. Her bus band commanded a whaling vessel, and she frequently went with him into the A rctio waters. On one of theso expedi tions all the boats wero out, leaving on board the captain anl just enough of the crew to manage the vessel. A whale w as noticed off to the starboard, and the captain and men were pnzzled how to get it. It was the woman who Bolved the problem and settled the fate of his whaleship. (ioing to the wheel she prevailed upon ber husband to leave the ship in her charge, with,tw-o dis abled men, while he and his men went aft or the whale. He did so. The woman managed the ship all day until nightfall, w hen the boats returned, that in command of her husband having cap tured the biggest whale ever seen in those waters. When the ship put in home the New Ledford owners made the "woman commander" a handsome present. The JllxM of One Man's Intelteek Km!l Du Bois Ranvn I.) Siemens telegraph wire; gird the earth, and the Siemens cable steamer Earailay is continually engagod in lay ing new one. 11 v the Siemens method bus been solved the problem (by the side of which that of finding a needle in a hay stack is one of childish simplicity; of fishing out m the stormy ocean, from a depth comparable to that of the vale of Chamouni, the ends of a broken cable. Electrical resistance is measured by the Siemen mercury unit. "Siemens" is written on water meters, and Prussian and German revenue officers are assisted by Siemens apparatus in levying their assessments. The Siemens process.-s for g hung and silvering and tho Sie mens anastatic pr nting mark stages in the development of those branches of industry. Siemens differential regulators con trol the action of the steam engines that forge the English arms at Woolwich and that of the chronographs on which the transit of the stars is marked at Greenwich. The Siemens cast steel works and glass houses, with their re generated furna -es, are admired bv all artisans. The Siemens electric light shines in assembly-rooms and public pla'-es, and the Siemens gas-light com petes with it; while the Siemens electro-culture in green houses bids defi ance to our long winter nights, Tho Siemens electric rail war is destined t rule in cities and tunnels. Tho Siem ens electric crucible, melting three pounds of platinum in twenty minutes, was a wonder of the Paris exposition, which might well have been called an exposition of Siemens' apparatus and productions, so promineut wero they there. The Hollow Nqaare in Warfare. New York Times. Tho "hollow square" formation that won the battle of El Teb is undoubt edly a formidable one in these days of long-range rules, when the assailants can be exterminated long before they ever reach the bayonet points. But that infantry s juares have been broken by cavalry on more than one occasion is now a mattor of history. Authorities are still divided as to whother Victor Hul;o was right in allirming or Siborne denying that the i rench ueavy bugade drove in tho face of a British square at Watorloo. But Montbrun's cuiras siers broke a Bnssian square at Boro dino in 1S12, and Col. Caulaincourt's horse, in the satuo battte, actually charged into an intrenched redoubt. In the conrso of the Anglo-Arabian war that followed England's annexa tion of Aden, in is'lfl, an English square was attacked in tho open plain by a mass of A Mali horsemen. Tho Arabs forced their way in so far as to kill sev eral men in the third rank, and wero then beaten off with bayonets and clubliod muskets, an occurrence util ized by James Grant in one of his mili tary novols. The Irish brigado had a similar experience at Talavera. "So, my Conuaught boys," said don. Ticton to them after the battle, "you let the Frenchmen get into your square to-day, did you?" "Well, your honor," an swered a brawny Irish gTenadier. with stern significance, "the blackguards got in. sure enough, but, bod.id ! they never got out again." The Color Line In Liberia. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. The tendency among the negroes is to draw the line between those of pure blood and mulattoea. They had trouble of this kind in Uayti, and it crops out here in the south to a greater or losser extent during every political campaign. It has become the controlling issue in the politics of the republio of Liberia. The constitution of that republic erects a bar against all men of white blood. They cannot bold office and are re s'ricted in their rights of citizenship. The black negroes now propose to bar out the yellow ones. J. J. JvoberU, Liberia's first presi dent and the George Washington of that country, was defeated when he last ran for otlice on tho color issue. He was very fair, almost white, in fact, and a native of this country. The Liberians now have a black president, who is a native of Africa, and the mulattocs are given to understand that they are not wanted. Very few mulattoea can now be induced to go to Liberia, the dispo sition being to let Liberia be purely a black republic NEW ORLEANS CEMETERIES. A l-attery Man'a Kevense Changes Kaee-Conrae Into a Cemetery. Letter in IW York Time. Any stranger here in search of curi osit.es is pretty sure to go bock again and again to the cemeteries, just as 1 am going back to them, for they aro, w ithout exception, the most interesting points to visit All the other Now Or leanwcuriosities may be duplicated in other cities, but there is nothing like the cemeteries anywhere else in America. They are ao full, bo well kept, so curious in their arrangement, so quiet and restful, that it is a pleasure to go into them. One of the oldest of the French cemeteries isin the heart of the city.only a few blocks from Canal street. It is inclosed w ith a high stone wall, and the entrance to it is through a narrow gateway. The graves are all above ground, as they are in all the New Or leans cemeteries, and the little burial houses are bo close together it looks impossible to find room for another body. There are several large vaults belonging to benevolent societies, and two or three are filled with bodies of Confederate soldiers. Narrow walks wind among these dwelling houses of the dead, with which the entire inclosure is filled. The inscrip tions on many of the tombs show that the occupants came years ago from the French provinces, but a fair proportion of the names are Ger man, Irish, or American. Nearly every grave shows some mark of affection, with its bouquet of Mowers, festoon of crape, rosette of black beads, its tiny cross, or font of holy water. The French do not forgot their dead Iriends. There are graves in this cemetery so old that the plas er is crumbling away, that still are ornamented with fresh bouquets of flowers. But this old 1 rench cemetery in tho middle of the city has r.ot the charm of the newer ones in the suburbs. About three miles from the center of the town, straight out Canal street, there is a village of cemeteries whose population must equal, I should think, thut of the city. It is just a pleasant walk to them on a fair day. The first to be reached bears a tigu over the gate "Temene, Pereeh, Best;'' the next is the Lutheran cemeterv, then the Jewish "Cemetery of the Congregation Dispersed of Judah," St. Patrick's cemetery, w hich probably is not filled w ith i renchraen ; the beautiful Eire men's cemetery, and the "Odd-Fellows' Best." The last to be reached in point of distance is the largest of all, the Metairie. This word was a sticker, and it took me a long time to find out what it meant. I asked several gentlemen whom I met on the broad gravel walks, and they all to'.d me it was a racetrack, but the exact connection between a cemetery and a race-track was bard to see. It was plain enough, however, when I beard the story. A few years ago Metaire was the fashionable race-course of New Orleans, ow ned by a club composed of a number of prominent citizens. The president of the Louisiana Lottery company de sired to join tho club, but the respect able gentlemen connected with it did not care to be mixed up with any 4 1144 business, and promptly black-balled him. He made effort after effort to got in, but was blue (-balled every time. At lost he grew indignant, aud said to thorn: "It's not much of a race-track, any how. I will buy it and make a cemetery of it." Ho kept bis word. Before long tlie sporting club was in ditliculties, and the lottery man got possession of most of its stock. As soon as he was able to control it he tore down the grand stand, laid the wholo place out in burial lots, and tho old race-track is now the fashionable cemetery of New Orleans. No choiee lots, how ever, aro reserved for the lottery com pany's victims who spend their last dollar for quarter tickets ond die in the poor-house. This connection of a swindling lottery company with a cemetery is beautifully appropriate, leaving nothing to be desired but an alms house on one side of the big arched gateway and a jail on the other. l UIUina; Old Cork. Minernl-Wa'er Trade Review. In a low wocden building in Mul berry street old corks are made as "good as new." This is the only place iu Nev York where they are dealt in. The dealer buys the corks by the bar rel, and pays trom f 1 to $U. His trade is mostly in champagne corks. The best and cleanest of theso he sorts and sells to American champagne-makers. The bottom of the cork, where the first bottler's brand appears, is shaved off, and the name of the second stamped oh them. These corks were cut expressly for champagne bottles, and, as they can ho bought much more cheaply than any new ones, the bottlers purchase them. The old-ci rk dealer obtains 'lo cents a dozen for them, and makes a handsome profit. The broken and dirty corks go through a peculiar process. They are first subjected to a sort of Turkish bath to clean them, and after they have dried are cut down. They are put in a ma chine and turned, while a sharp knife runs across them. They can be cut to any size, and, with the soiled surface removed, look as bright as when new. The corks cut down are purchased by root - beer and soda water makers, who use smaller bottles. They can save a considerable amount by purchasing old corks, which, as it i.s easy to see, will do as well as new ones. 1 ho "old cork man" is rushed with business. The champagne and root-baer and soda water bottlers take all the corks be can furnish. Ho gets his supply at the hotels and elsewhere. On the Verge of Reaetion. Helen Wiknui in Chicago Express. The day of military leaders is past The day of political leaders is past. I doubt whether there will ever be a new party formed or a new church. I iloubt wheth r thev are needed. I see something better ahead; I see that cor ruption in the old parties and in the old churches, having gone its entire length logins to tremble on the verge of reae tion. Wilkins: He who makes the best of life loses the worst of death. Arizona' Petrified Foreat. Cor. Boston Herald. One might almost pass by and notice nothing unusual. But on looking closer the rocka are found to be the trnnks of fallen trees turned to stone. Ther lie about you here, there and evert" where, some preserving their shape au'.i outlines, others broken or cracked. The scene is a strange one. It smacks of enchantment Perhaps some potent magician blew upon this forest in the vigor of its prime, and before his chil. ing breath the stout trees bowed them selves and fell, and froze into flint and agate. Still you hardly see why you came, but after the coffee bad'been boiled and breakfast eaten your Mexi cans slow ly enlighten you. They bring out hammers aud drills, and selecting likely spot in a etone trunk endeavor to force a way into it. The stone U like adamant. Again and again the drill bounds away, but finally pieces are shivered off "the cracks made, so that you see what the petrified forest has hidden within it. Emeralds, sap phires, and diamonds are convenient names, but alas, our discoveries woalj hardly be counted as such by Tiffanv. Yet they are singularly beautiful. Yon find blocks of stone, there sides bristling with great hexagonal crystals, some green, others purple, and others a pure white. You cut through geodes whose hollows are lined with prismatic errs tals sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow. Much of the stone is beanti fully marked flint. Often you find pieces with a brown corrugatod coating, which, I fancy, is the petrified bark. All the stone abounds in the most deli cate shadings of gray and white, with dark lines, but the crystals, lining fis sures or gathered in the nests of geodes, are the especial delight of seekers. Here, too, there are moss agates, and exceptionally large and clear garnets, which masquerade under the name of rubies. And of tho ordinary forms of petrified wood there is no end. Heating It ran a. Philadelphia Ledger. "Do you beat brass?" is the initial catechism of the latest fashionable handicraft in Philadelphia. It is a par ticular pet with feminine fingers, and requires thorough and practical knowl edge of hammers and tracing tools, brass aud block. A class of ladies, un der tho patronage of the Scandinavian Thor, have produced some beautiful ond lasting work. The instructor teaches them the way of using and holding their tools, and the proper kind of stroke to make upon the steel dies. The method is simple. On a block of wood a brass plate of sheet is fast ened. The design is then drawn upon it; the outline hammered by a die, which has a row of dots. Other dies give the groundwork a frosted or mottled appearance. Everything depends on the skill of the workwoman. Iteally valuable articles in repousse brass can bo made from a piece of brass costing but a email sum. Card-receivers, paper-weights and plaques can be made. The brass beating educates the bands and develops the muscles. It is worthy of note how much interest in the me chanical arts is publicly shown. Some times the hammering of brass is com bined with the use of the paint brush. A brass tray lately seeu has a loose spray of purple pansies, apparently flung down carelessly npon it. 1'nrle Iteinns on the Art ot Court ship. IJoel Chandler Harris in Atlanta Constitu tion. "I know'd a nigger one time," said Uncle Kemus, after pondering a mo ment, "w'nt tuck a notion dot he wants bait er 'simruons, en de mo w'at de no tion tuck 'm de mo' w'at be want am, en biineby, hit look lak he des natolly erbleodz ter have um. He want de 'sim mons, en dar dey is in detree. Hemoof water, on dar hang de 'simmons. No, den w'at do dot nigger do? W'en you en mo en dish yer chilo yer wants 'sim mons, we goes out en shakos de tree, en ef deyer good en ripe, down dey comes, en ef deyer good en green, dar dey stays. But dis yer yuther nigger, he too smart fer dat. ' He des tuck'n tuck he stau' und' do tree, en he open de mouf, he did, wait fer de simmons fer ter drop in dar. Dey ain't none drap in y it," continued Uncle Kemus, gently knocking the cold ashes out of his pipe, "en w'nt's mo', dey ain't none gwine ter drap iu dar. Dat des.zackly de wy wid Brer Jack yer "bout marryin'; b stau dar he do, en he hoi' bote ban's wide open, en ho speck de gal gwine ter drop right spang in 'um. Man want gal, he des got ter grab 'er dot's w'at Dey may squall en day may flutter, bat fluttor'n an' squallin' ain't done no dam age yit as I knows un' en 'taint gwine ter. Young chaps kin make great 'uiirs tion 'bout "gals, but w'en dey gits ole J I is dey 'ull know dat folks is folks, en w'en it come ter bein' folks de winiinea ain't got none de 'vantage er der wen Now dat's des de plain up e down tale I'm a tellm' nn you." For Oyster Eaters. Detroit Free Press. The New York Times proposes tie organization of "a new partv in fsvorof spelliug 'Orgusf with on 'r,' and thns enabling American citizens to eat oys ters thirty-one davs, earlier in the season than is now possibA." TheTimesdoei not know, perhaps but it is a fact that The Chicago Tribune has inang rated a svstem of spelling which, "J faithfully "followed, would give us just such a bad spell of August as 1M Times wants. There is an easier way, however, to lengthen the oyster sea-on bv thirty-one davs. Let the month oi May be called by its true name, tw month of Mary. A 103.000 I) res. Cor. Boston Uerali The most noticeable feature of f cent evening at Saratoga was tl.e mag nificence of the costumes of the lau Perhaps the most costly of these worn bv Mrs. Moore, the wife of a 1 &u adelphia millionaire. One who fessed to have accurate information e the subject told me that she wore hv and silks which cost $30,000, and J" diamonds that were valued at i1' This makes $105,000 for owevewg outfit. Whatever the cost, the ton was certainly snperb. and I anvthing more expensive or elaoo has ever been seen in this country.